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As members of the ASUC Office of the External Affairs Vice President, we are relieved to see students fighting back against tuition hikes. Approximately 150 UC Berkeley students went to UCSF for the UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday, thanks to the help of AFSCME, UAW and UPTE; later thatRead More…

Sen. Leland Yee represented a consistent and formidable thorn in the side of the UC system for years, frequently positioning himself at odds with the university’s publicly stated legislative priorities.Read More…

When Janet Napolitano assumed the role of UC president on September 30, she also assumed the responsibility of overseeing ongoing negotiations. Within three months, that number was down to three.Read More…

The University of California and the union representing the largest number of its workers reached an agreement on a tentative labor contract for service workers Wednesday night, ending more than a year of negotiations and canceling a five-day strike planned for next week.Read More…

Next week, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 will vote to authorize their third strike in nine months at University of California medical centers, where union leaders claim staffing levels are so low that patient lives are endangered and the quality of careRead More…

Urban Animal

For all its daring, colossal beauty, professor Alexander Coward’s recent widely circulated email made a poor comparison that struck me. The more I think about it, the more it bothers me. Coward wrote a letter to the freshmen in his Math 1A class who were scared about the upcoming strike.Read More…

More than 60 workers protested Friday afternoon in front of the UC Office of the President in Oakland after the University of California decided to implement its latest wage and pension offer for service employees.Read More…

The UC Board of Regents approved an action item at their meeting on July 17th to increase the rates of contributions made by the university and its faculty and staff to the UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) for the 2014-2015 school year.Read More…

While Americans don’t seem to agree on much these days, there has been a growing public consensus on the issue of reforming public employee pensions. Virtually no one thinks “public servants” should be receiving taxpayer-subsidized payouts as large as $300,000 per year for life when they are no longer working.Read More…